fire detector

A house fire is much more likely than a break-in, and with a monitored smoke or fire detector, the security company will dispatch the fire department as soon as they receive an alert.

The new prototype fire detector doesn’t need batteries; it is powered by a “triboelectric generator” that harnesses small motions to produce energy.

We read a book, practiced our letters and sounds, and did some math; all this to the tune of a dying, chirping fire detector, the clanging of dishes being put away, a dog barking and radio silence from the child whose audio wasn’t working.

Shares in other UK Boeing suppliers were also down: QinetiQ fell 1%; Meggitt, which makes the fire detector system for the Max engine and auxiliary power unit, slipped 1.6%; and Ultra Electronics, which supplies wing ice protection systems to Boeing, lost 1.1%.

Their three sons share a bedroom, the fire detector goes off every time the dryer is on, and each room is filled with reminders of repairs Pineda can no longer easily make: a curtain standing in for a bathroom door, a broken shower, bowed floorboards outside the front door.